by Flynn | Nov 19, 2024
Remembrance Day 2024 11 November 2024 Susan and I have always gone to the Remembrace Day Serivice here in Burnaby in Confederation Park. However, since Mom and Dad have passed away, we have begun going out to Fort Langley every year to visit the folks and to take...
by Flynn | Nov 12, 2022
We visited with Mom and Dad for while and I glued a red poppy to their headstone. It won’t be there that long but for a while. That is enough. Then we went to visit Andrew Dalgliesh and his wife Ann Sinclair. They were the parents of Kate who married Will...
by Flynn | Nov 11, 2021
Today is Remembrance Day and I have been thinking about Mom and Dad. Every year in our house while growing up Remembrance Day was close to a religious holiday for my Dad. He seldom talked about the War and when he did it was usually about the good times: the parties,...
by Flynn | Nov 25, 2016
The Langley Cenotaph Remembrance Day 2016 Well, Grandpa is 99 now and getting very frail. He has been in Langley Lodge for a few months and it has worked out really well. He is now more active than he was at home and he has actually been gaining strength. He has his...
by Flynn | Oct 4, 2015
This past 13th of September I went out to Langley to pick up Grandpa and we went down to Stanley Park for a celebration of the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. We went for a lunch in the Pavilion hosted by the Air Force Officers Association and then went outside...
by Flynn | Dec 17, 2014
It all began with a book. Wayne Ralph travelled and interviewed and then wrote a book of stories about average men caught up in the air war of 73 years ago. Dad was one of the people he wrote about in Aces, Warriors and Wingmen. Anyway, when the French Government...
